Linking to the Biodiversity Heritage Library & beyond...
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This is a presentation I gave to Museum Victoria staff about how we (and other institutions) link items within our collection management tools and with external systems to create a global network of biological knowledge (and how we can do this better). The presentation was delivered on 27 Oct 2016, as part of Museum Victoria's monthly Digital Interest Group (DIG) seminar/discussion series.
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- 1. Biological Heritage Library & beyond… Linking to the Nicole Kearney BHL Australia @nicolekearney @bhl_au
- 4. Biodiversity Heritage Library The world’s largest online repository for biodiversity heritage & archival materials. www.biodiversitylibrary.org
- 5. Digitising our biodiversity literature
- 6. Biodiversity Heritage Library50+MILLION 188,000+ pages volumes 220+ contributors Information on 170+ million species www.biodiversitylibrary.org
- 8. BHL users – our online community 5.5+ MILLION Total unique users to date Average monthly unique users (CY16) 98,000+ 10+ MILLION Total website visits to date Average monthly visits (CY16) 175,000+ 243 Countries & Territories *Stats as of September 2016 Australian visits: 65,812 @bhl_au 485+ followers 10,500+ followers 10,700+ followers 24,000+ followers www.biodiversitylibrary.org
- 11. Click on Link to View Page
- 12. 1898
- 14. DATE: 26 September 1948 OBSERVATIONS LOCATION: Lake Corangamite
- 15. DATE: 26 September 1948 OBSERVATIONS LOCATION: Lake Corangamite BEHAVIOUR: nesting
- 16. Chroicocephalus novaehollandiae Linking our core biodiversity data
- 17. ?
- 18. OCR from a page of Graham Brown’s diary l>^v-^wAl^ livU*^/) Curiae '^tila'* -u^vttcvi Lsefei cit^:< Lv. 1^ Ol^Vm?iJcw , L>w i^- ^Otv^ dS^^iL* ll^^Uk^ M/tTM^li?'^ tvc4fi>r '^^-^ G^WtY^^ uve^v. llCCUvlr]^vvl^ '^L^>u^ l^t^ You can’t search handwriting
- 28. Where are the birds?
- 29. Common names!?
- 30. @bhl_au
- 36. Common name Scientific name Location Source library
- 37. Common name Scientific name Location Source library Tagged = discoverable (citizen scientists) Original scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Artist name artist:name= Accepted scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Machine-readable tags Common name taxonomy:common=
- 38. Common name Scientific name Location Source library Original scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Artist name artist:name= Accepted scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Machine-readable tags Common name taxonomy:common=
- 43. Common name Scientific name Location Source library Tagged = discoverable Original scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Artist name artist:name= Accepted scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Machine-readable tags Common name taxonomy:common= Location geo:country= AUSTRALIA
- 49. Tagged = discoverable Crowd-sourced online volunteers
- 51. @bhl_au
- 52. @bhl_au
- 53. @bhl_au
- 54. Source Author name Accepted scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Common name taxonomy:common= Machine-readable Tags Tags Country geo:country= Date Link
- 55. Source Author name Accepted scientific name taxonomy:bionomial= Common name taxonomy:common= Machine-readable Tags Tags Country geo:country= Date Link
- 56. 4200 clutches, totalling 13 000 eggs H.L. White Collection of Australian Birds’ Eggs
- 60. White, H.L. Donor (Bequest, 15 Aug 1927)
- 61. Date Registered: 18 Oct 2016
- 64. Date Registered: 25 Oct 2016
- 67. Date Registered: 25 Oct 2016
- 68. Page R (2016) Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e8767. doi: 10.3897/rio.2.e8767 Biodiversity knowledge graph Rod Page Professor of Taxonomy University of Glasgow The links that SHOULD be present between core biodiversity datasets online
- 69. Page R (2016) Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e8767. doi: 10.3897/rio.2.e8767 Linking our core biodiversity data
- 70. Page R (2016) Towards a biodiversity knowledge graph. Research Ideas and Outcomes 2: e8767. doi: 10.3897/rio.2.e8767 Taxonomic literature is the foundation upon which our understanding of biodiversity is based. Linking our core biodiversity data
- 71. 90+ scientific papers? Founding member Henry L. White
Editor's Notes
- The Biodiversity Heritage Library is the world’s largest online repository for biodiversity heritage and archival materials. Globally, the Biodiversity Heritage Library is based at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, but there are libraries contributing all over the world and here in Australia, the project is funded by the Atlas of Living Australia.
- We take rare books and historic journals from library collections, we digitise them, we add metadata and we upload them online.
- To give you an idea of the reach of this virtual library, here are some stats on our users. These are the people who peruse our content, who use it for research, education and art, and who share it with others. I won’t go through these stats, but you can see that people love our online library. The stat I’m most interested in this one – we had over 65,000 visits from our Australian online community.
- But why should we care about someone’s old diaries? Historic field diaries chronicle the scientific expeditions undertaken over time to explore, research and discover the natural history of our world.
- And in diaries, historic observations are linked to the two key pieces of information that make an observation useful to science – the DATE the observation was made and the LOCATION of that observation. These are the observations made by Graham Brown on the 26 September 1948 at Lake Corangamite.
- Field diaries are also filled with contextual information about biology and behaviour.
- But while our curators would now be able to find the diaries, their contents were still inaccessible. This is the OCR output for this handwritten page. In order to unlock their contents and extract the historic data, we needed to transcribe them.
- This was the first field diary we uploaded. In order to attract volunteers to our project, we wrote an introduction highlighting the significance of the author and his work.
- Information and pictures of all species known to science gathered together and made available to everyone – anywhere.
- The Atlas of Living Australia contains information on all the known species in Australia aggregated from a wide range of data providers: museums, herbaria, community groups, government departments, individuals and universities.
- This diagram was published earlier this year in a paper by Rod Page. Rod Page calls this the "biodiversity knowledge graph "and it represents the links that SHOULD be present between "core" biodiversity datasets online.
- The bit I’m most interested in is this bit – the link between taxonomic names and their descriptions in the literature.